Hook for wagon-covers.



No. 643,025; Patented Feb. 6, 1900.

R. a. WRIGHT.

HOOK FOR WAGON COVERS.

(Application filed Tan. 6, 1898.)

(No Model.)

WWW 2r "kl-MW 4g UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT G. l/VRIGIIT, OF FORT IVORTH, TEXAS.

HOOK FOR WAGON-COVERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,025, dated February 6, 1900.

Application filed January 6, 1898. Serial No. 665,765. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT G. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Worth, Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Hooks for VVagon- Covers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a hook for holding up the edges of wagon-covers, and is adapted more particularly for holding up the edges of such covers as those used on farm-wagon bodies and stretched over bows which are bent, forming arches over the wagon-body.

The hook consists of the novel construction hereinafter fully described and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the hook attached to a part of a wagon-bow. Fig. 2 is a broken viewof a wagon-body with the bows in place and the cover held up by the hooks.

The hook is preferably constructed of steel wire bent substantially in the form of the letter S, having the top and bottom and middle parts in the same plane and substantially parallel, with an eye in each end.

In Fig. 1 the hook is attached to the bow B by means of clamp A. The clamp A is bent to conform to the bow B and provided with an inward bend h for pressing against the bow B. The hook is attached to the clamp by coiling the end of the wire forming the hook around the clamp-back at d. The hook is adjusted on the outside of bow B, and the bend a rests against the bow B and is thus firmly braced.

In one way the hook is a double hook, as in Fig. 1, but turned over it is a single hook. In Fig. 1 the space 0 between the bowB and the bar 0 forms one hook or bight for holding the wagon-sheet and the space a between the bars a and b forms another book or bight.

The object in making a double hook is twofold. One object is that when the edge of the cover fills the first hook, that in space a, the cover will fall in the second hook, thatin space 0'. Another object is to provide a hook that may be reversed, so that the hook may be moved from one side of a wagon to the other side without takingit from the bow, and when moved over to the other side it will be ready for use.

It is preferable to construct the hook as above described; but the hook may be constru'ctedin various other ways.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a hook for wagon-covers and a clamp for attaching the same to a wagon-bow, said clamp consisting of a single piece of wire bent to conform to the contour of the wagon-bow and having the bent portion for pressing against said bow and said hook having two bights for holding the Wagoncover, substantially as described and illustrated.

In testimony whereof I set my hand, in the presence of two witnesses, this 3d day of J anuary, 1898.

ROBERT G. WRIGHT. Witnesses:

JAMES GILEoRD BROWNING, G. P. JAMES. 

